Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this semester's Fellows.

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Congratulations to our 2025 Summer Research Award recipients from Ethnic Studies, Environmental Design, Geography, Information, Film and Media, Rhetoric, and Anthropology. Read more

UC Berkeley professor Nicole Starosielski didn’t expect to become a leading expert on subsea internet cables, but now she’s at the forefront of making the internet’s hidden infrastructure visible and understood. In her feature on UC Berkeley News, she breaks down why these undersea fiber optic cables matter far more than you might think. Read more

We are excited to announce our recommended New Media courses for Summer 2025! Whether you're drawn to sound design, tech geopolitics, feminist media studies, or animation, these courses will inspire creativity, critical thinking, and hands-on learning in the ever-evolving landscape of new media. Read more

Two new videos feature UC Berkeley students who are not only making an impact in the digital infrastructure space but will also be involved in our Certificate in Global Digital Infrastructure, the first undergraduate program of its kind! Read more

Calling all digital infrastructures experts! Be part of an exciting new curriculum. Read more

We are very excited to offer small grants to further support our faculty in their new media classes! Read more

Nicole Starosielski and Iago Bojczuk published this article in e-Flux Architecture. Read more

TA for Transforming Tech or Digital Infrastructures this summer! Read more

Congratulations Alex Saum-Pascual, Asma Kazmi, and Jill Miller! Read more

Interview with researcher Jen Schradie. Read more

Digital Art During the Pandemic features an interview with Alex Saum-Pascual. Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger presented at the 2021 Conference for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) about the labor behind maintaining free and open-source software projects. Read more

Tonya Nguyen shares her findings on how mutual aid organizations can scale effectively, especially when making decisions about the technology they should use and its impact on their communities. Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! Read more

DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year.  Read more

The team will study the invisible work of maintaining open-source software Read more

Join Tom McEnaney on August 28th as he discusses Wireless Commons and Counterpublics: New Digital Infrastructures in Cuba! Read more